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Americas 3 months ago

Trump administration abandons $1.8 billion fund to compensate supporters

The Justice Department on Tuesday dropped a contentious plan to create a US$1.8 billion compensation program that critics had denounced as a "slush fund" for President Donald Trump's political allies.

Editorial 3 months ago

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Police state

As the Indonesian Military (TNI) submitted to civilian control in the first two decades of the reform era and scaled down their non-defense roles, the police have only grown in stature and clout.

Environment 3 months ago

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Two decades later, impacts from East Java mud volcano linger

On May 29, 2006, the earth in the Sidoarjo opened up, ejecting pungent, steaming hot mud that swallowed villages and factories.

Features 3 months ago

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For Palestinians in Indonesia, education is an act of survival

Displaced by war and scattered across the archipelago, Palestinian students are pressing on for themselves; as well as those they left behind.

Academia 3 months ago

The clock is ticking for Malaysian politics

Whether the national polls are triggered by the explosive multibillion-ringgit fuel subsidy crisis or accelerated by cascading state-level collapses, the political alignment is fluidly shaping up.

Asia & Pacific 3 months ago

Philippines orders arrest of fugitive senator sought by ICC

The Philippine government on Thursday ordered police to arrest a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court over his role in ex-president Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug crackdown.

Politics 3 months ago

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Dejà vu as current 'chaos' haunt Reform anniversary

Twenty-eight years after the start of the Reform era, analysts and activists fear that Indonesia may be drifting toward conditions resembling the lead-up to the 1998 crisis.

Asia & Pacific 3 months ago

Philippines asks top court to allow ICC drug war arrest of senator

The Philippines said it has asked the country's Supreme Court to allow it to arrest ex-president Rodrigo Duterte's chief drug war enforcer to stand trial in an international tribunal.

Academia 3 months ago

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Everybody wants to be a political influencer

Platform-native influencers actively participate in the shaping of illiberal democracy, which in Indonesia almost always means working within the configurations of the oligarchy they appear to scrutinize.

Europe 3 months ago

Starmer faces biggest challenge yet as resignation threat overshadows king's speech

Keir Starmer was facing his biggest challenge yet on Wednesday when his health minister was reportedly readying his resignation to try to trigger a contest to replace a British prime minister who had sought some respite to set out his government's agenda.

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